University of Virginia Library

SIZE OF COLLECTIONS

In the University libraries combined there was on January 1, 1929, a total
of 158,557 volumes These were located as follows:

           

Collections at the Rotunda	87,113 volumes
Law Library	23,208 volumes
Medical Library	6,679 volumes
Heck Memorial Library of Education	6,157 volumes
Departmental libraries and other collections	35,400 volumes
	158,557 volumes

This total does not include unbound material. The Periodical Room in
the General Library, the Medical Library, the Heck Memorial Library of
Education, and the departmental libraries together receive 515 current periodicals;
and the Law Library receives seventy-six periodicals. In the Periodical
Room there are files of over 800 periodicals.